01/10/1955 Board of Public Works Minutes

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• • • • • The request of Mrs. Elmer Webster, President of American. War Mothers, for permit to sell memorial carnations on the downtown streets, for the date of Saturday, May 7, 1955, was granted by the Board. The Board was then consulted in the matter of supplying water and fuel oil for Hose House No. 3, 219 N. Hill Street, now used exclusively as radio communications center, and for storage purposes, and under the supervision of Ira Hunsberger, Superintendent of the Electrical Department. The Clerk was directed to charge these requirements to the proper appropriation set up for this type of expense under the Board of Public Works and Safety, budget for 1955, until further advised. STREET DEPARTMENT: H. M. Tomlinson, Street Commissioner, being present, discussion then was taken up on the condition of the Bartlett Street paving, and the probable additional duration of the detour at the North Pumping Station due to the construction of lift station in North Michigan Street at this location. The decision reached was that of calling upon the Traffic Engineer for a change -over in the traffic pattern, to be made effective as soon as possible, pending receipt of the Traffic Engineer►s recommendation which is to be placed in the hands of the City Civil Engineer, with the least possible delay. RESOLUTION ADOPTING FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL RESOLUTION NO. 2795 - 1954 After hearing all persons interested who appeared and the Clerk of the Board of Public works and Safety having proofs of publicatiDn of notices to property owners and the same having been found sufficient, therefore BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend, ±Indiana, that the Primary or preliminary Assessment Roll adopted by the Board on the '27th day of December, 1954, for the improvement of ROCKNE DRIVE from Chimes Boulevard to MacArthur Avenue by constructing a Class "C", Type 3 Bituminous Concrete (AH). .,Pavement be and the same is in all things confirmed. R. S. Andrysiak James A. Bickel Board of Pu 71ic Works & Safety Ward H. Crothers ,!Clerk of the Board TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT: Attention was called to the need of two additional two-way three -section traffic signal heads, and the Clerk was directed to proceed with the purchase of this equipment.,: The Board approved the following traffic sign installations: YIELD RIGHT OF WAY sign on northwest corner of Arthur at Chalfant Street STOP sign on southeast corner of Arthur Street at Chalfant Street. Traffic Engineer, E. H. Miller, being present, placed with the Board his report on consultations held with reference to the request of South Bend Parking Lot Company for changes in parking lot east of Michigan Street, between Washington and Colfax Avenue.` Excavation Bonds, each in the sum of $1,000.00, were examined and approved for the following: Norman W. Collmer Jos. M. Hiznay Abe N. Medow C. S. Randolph W. W. and W. P. Sibley Edmund L. Zimmerman The Board then examined Summary i on file. There being no further business at 11:0 A. M. Attest: Clerk of Building Permits for 1954 and order them placed to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned